Mednafen Saturn coming ?

[Lordmonkus]

Graphical options are very limited in the stand alone.

[Thanos Reigns]

Plus Saturn games don't scale well @1080p. The only good options are 480p, 720p, 960p and 1440p

[ckp]

Thought I would try saturn mednafen in Retroarch, but it just boots to a japanese bios like screen which looks like it wants date/time to be set. Nothing seems to get me out of that screen even if i set the date/time? Any idea? In Mednafen stand alone i don't have this issue and i'm using the same bios files.

[Zombeaver]

You have to hit the continue button (it's the bottom right one, if I recall). Once you do this for the first time you won't be prompted for the same game in the future. It's something specific to the RA version and I believe they're planning on getting rid of it in the future.

[DOS76]

The date time screen is standard for RA Saturn core the 1st time you start a game after that it should go into the game if you are getting stuck there I don't know what the issue is.

[ckp]

thing is that i tried all the buttons on that screen, but it keeps coming back. i'll try again...

[Zombeaver]

It should make a little *bleeooh* noise and then fade out and then it'll go to the normal boot intro. Sometimes there are a couple of screens you have to go through. It shouldn't come back any time you load the game after that.

[ckp]

ok, i had to hit the xbox red B button on the bottom right bios button. before i tried A and Start to no avail.

all good now.

so, what RA settings would you recommend to make the graphics look better since it's quite grainy. no scan lines please  

[ckp]

right now it is full 16:9 (that might not be great for saturn) and looks pretty bad. the game is WAY slower than it was in stand alone.

[Zombeaver]

37 minutes ago, ckp said:

so, what RA settings would you recommend to make the graphics look better...

Well you could use...

37 minutes ago, ckp said:

...no scan lines please

I got nothin'... 

You could try some of the interpolation shaders like xBR. I'm not a fan of them in general but xBR is probably the best among them.

[Zombeaver]

1 minute ago, ckp said:

right now it is full 16:9 (that might not be great for saturn) and looks pretty bad. the game is WAY slower than it was in stand alone.

You can change the AR (4:3 or something custom if you wanted) in the video settings just like any other RA core.

[ckp]

there are a zillion xbr shaders. how do i turn it off if i end up not liking a shader?

[Zombeaver]

In the shader section where it shows "Passes: #" turn it to 0 and then hit apply changes.

You can also just switch between them, loading one after another - it'll overwrite the old one.

[ckp]

ok, any idea how to get the game out of slow motion? in stand alone it was fine. i must have a video setting that RA doesn't like?

[Zombeaver]

Do you have frame delay set to anything other than 0 in your video settings (it's under vsync)? If so, try changing it to 0.

[ckp]

nope, frame delay is 0 already

[Lordmonkus]

Do you have Hard GPU Sync On ? If so set the Hard GPU Sync Frames to 1.

 

[Zombeaver]

You can also try turning on CD caching. It's in Quick Menu -> Options and it should be the top option. It's off by default.

[ckp]

hard cpu sync is on but was set to 0. i set it to 1.

i just enabled cd caching.

now the performance is much better. thanks.

in stand alone the 4:3 fills my 1080p screen from top to bottom but in RA it leave black bars on all sides, so it's smaller. Trying 16:9 in RA also leaves black bars on all sides whereas not in stand alone. any idea how to fix the 4:3 in RA so it fills top and bottom?

[Zombeaver]

I had the same problem with the AR in RA. I ended up creating my own custom viewport so that it properly scales to the top and bottom of the screen.

Basically you can instruct it to move/crop the screen by telling it to use "custom" AR and then tweaking the numbers. I can give you the exact numbers I used when I get home tonight.